Method of printing textile materials.



-.No. 780,636. E PATENTED JAN. 24, 1905.

J. GAEGENE.

METHOD OF PRINTING TEXTILE MATERIALS.

APPLIOATION FILED SEPT. 23, 1903.

UNITED STATES Patented January 24, 1905.

PATENT. OFFICE.

METHOD OF PRINTINGVTEXTILE MATERIALS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 780,636, dated January 24, 1905.

Application filed September 23, 1903. Serial No. 174,378.

To aZZ whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, J AOQUES CADGIENE, a citizen of France, residing in Zurich, in the canton of Zurich, Republic of Switzerland, (whose post-office address is No. 9 Seidengasse, Zurich, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Methods of Printing Textile Materials; andI do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such'as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

I have applied for patent in France on April 6, 1903. I

For some time past endeavors have been made to produce various designs on fabrics by the application of stencils and by theuse of pulverized colors, but without any appreciable result. It may be said that this method has never yet met with any industrial application. The patents taken out haveremained in the theoretical stage owing to the innumerable difliculties found to be in the way of their practical application on an industrial scale. At the present time by means of a wellknown small apparatus, the aerographe,

designs are also reproduced by the spraying of colorsand the application of stencils on the fabric; but this method still belongs rather to the domain of art than to that of industry.

My invention consists in applying a greasy mastic on cloth by printing and forming a reserve and then in spraying colors on the cloth by the aid of steam or compressed air, thereby obtaining any kind of pattern. Such patterns may be in the rainbow style, polychrome or monochrome. The cloth being unacted on by the colors in all places Where it is covered by the printed mastic it follows that when this mastic is caused to disappear by washing it with benzin the patterns remain well defined on such parts of the cloth as have not been covered with mastic.

In cloth-printing works the method of employing mastic as a pattern reserve is known; but until now the cloth with the mastic reserve was dipped into a bath of dye, so that of course the cloth could only obtain a color of the monochrome style. 'With my process by using pulverized colors in combination with a printed mastic I can by means of a number of pipes spray on the fabric as many colors as desired, which colors, according to my intention, are transformed into the rainbow style, polychrome or monochrome styles Thisis obtained by using vessels with the respective colors.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 illustrates a portion of fabric having a design produced thereon in mastic. Fig. 2 is an elevation of a machine for use in carrying out my method. Fig. 3 illustrates a portion of fabric wherein the parts 6 are covered by the mastic.

The method of carrying out this process is as follows: First of all on the fabric a, Fig. 1, is printed, either by means of hand-blocks or by a mechanical printing-cylinder, an impression b in mastic of the desired pattermthe mastic being then dried at a moderate temperature. When the mastic is dry, thegoods are passed through a special machine, Fig. 2,

wherein are disposed acertain number of pipes 0, which act automatically and project the pulverized colors on the fabric a by means of steam or compressed air. When the goods have received the desired colors, which takes only a few minutes, they are allowed to dry for four or five hours. At the end of this time the mastic is eliminated by washing the goods in twosuccessive baths of. benzin. When the mastic has disappeared, the patterns 0Z show up in a more decided manner, owing to d August, 1903.

JACQUES (JADGENE.

Witnesses A. LIEBERKNEOHT, HERMANN HUBER. 

